Live Blog: Super Tuesday
Posted: March 1, 2016 Filed under: 2016 elections 189 Comments
Good Evening!!!
We’re waiting for the results from the 12 Super Tuesday States!!
There are a diverse number of states weighing in today. There are caucus states and primary states. Several are election day for one party only.
The first Super Tuesday polls opened in the Commonwealth of Virginia at 06:00 am EST. Colorado doesn’t start it’s caucus process until 9 pm EST.
The Republicans probably have more at stake since they’re trying to stop the Trump phenomenon.
Senator Ted Cruz cannot afford to lose to Mr Trump in Texas, Mr Cruz’s home state, while a reverse for Mr Trump in Massachusetts, with its moderate voters, could break the property tycoon’s nationwide momentum.
Both Trump and Hillary are expected to do well today.
Democrats are voting in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Minnesota, as well as in the US territory of American Samoa.
Democrats abroad will also submit their votes. There is also a caucus in Colorado, but the vote then goes to a state convention.
Mrs Clinton is eyeing black voters in places like Alabama, Georgia and Virginia after taking eight out of 10 black votes in South Carolina.
On the campaign trail in Minneapolis on Tuesday, she accused her Republican rivals of “running their campaigns based on insults. It’s turned into a kind of one-upmanship on insulting”.
Bernie Sanders voted early in his home state of Vermont.
He told reporters that if turnout was high “we are going to do well. If not, we’re probably going to be struggling”.
But he pledged: “This is a campaign that is going to the Philadelphia convention in July.”
We’re beginning to see the end games of quite a few campaigns.
Here’s the complete schedule of state, with opening and closing times (EST) for each:
- Alabama, 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
- Alaska, 11 a.m. and midnight
- Arkansas, 8:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m.
- Colorado, caucuses begin at 9 p.m.
- Georgia, 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
- Massachusetts, 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.
- Minnesota, caucuses begin at 8 p.m.
- Oklahoma, 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
- Tennessee, 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
- Texas, 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. or 9 p.m.
- Vermont, as early as 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Virginia, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Wyoming, various times for caucuses
- American Samoa, caucuses begin at 2 p.m.
The Rubio campaign isn’t feeling very chipper today and is setting expectations pretty low after claiming 2nd and 3rd place finishes were HUGE wins!
Marco Rubio’s top campaign adviser huddled with roughly 40 bundlers and K Streeters Tuesday morning to prepare them for a difficult primary election night—as well as to brief them on the campaign’s plan for what to do next.
Terry Sullivan told supporters at campaign headquarters that the Florida Republican could secure just 100 delegates from Super Tuesday states in one of the scenarios he laid out.
Sullivan’s prediction was part of his larger detailed powerpoint presentation going through different delegate counts for March, April and May. He told attendees that it would be mathematically impossible for Donald Trump to get to 1,237 delegate votes by the end of April, according to multiple attendees.
I’m not certain it’s even worthwhile to think about either Kasich or Carson. Each of the not Trump candidates are betting on their home states to bump them. However, they need dollars as well as some kind of bump.
The AP is forecasting that both Clinton and Trump will pull far away from their competition.
The disarray among Republicans comes as Clinton appears to be tightening her grip on the Democratic field. She scored a blowout victory over Bernie Sanders in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, a contest that underscored her strength with black voters.
Clinton’s campaign is hoping that support will continue in Tuesday’s contests in several Southern states with large African-American electorates.
She has increasingly turned her attention to Trump in recent days, casting herself as a civil alternative to the insults and bullying that have consumed the Republican race.
“What we can’t let happen is the scapegoating, the flaming, the finger pointing that is going on the Republican side,” she told voters in Springfield, Massachusetts. “It really undermines our fabric as a nation.”
Sanders, who has energized young voters with his call for a political revolution, was seeking to stay close to Clinton in the South and pick up victories in other states including Minnesota and his home state of Vermont. But Sanders faces tough questions about whether he can rally minorities who are core Democratic voters.
I’ll be watching and phonebanking from Second Vine Wine Bar just down the street from me with the New Orleans Louisiana Team. I’ll be checking in and out so please let us know what’s going on in your state and with your local coverage if you’re on the list! I know we’ve got Sky Dancers in most of these places!!! Get ready to break out the popcorn and confetti!!
Have a great Super Tuesday Evening!
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CNN projects Hillary wins Georgia and Virginia, Bernie wins Vermont.
I’m popping virtual champagne! HRC 2016 HRC 2016 HRC 2016!!!!!!
Mass. closes at 8PM. I’m hoping . . .
Me too.
It’s starting to rain like hell, and winds picking up! Ordered pizza, and having beer to go with! So Happy for Hillary. Fingers crossed for Mass. shouldn’t be a problem.
Another sexist rapper endorses Bernie.
Rapper T.I. has some really cringeworthy things to say about Hillary Clinton.
http://www.businessinsider.com/rapper-ti-hillary-clinton-endorses-bernie-sanders-2016-3
And men don’t, of course. How did this man’s mother ever put up with him?
My guess is that he’s a “Housewives” fan.
Sanders giving victory speech in Vermont.
This tweet from Dana Milbank is really funny.
I hope she meant it that way. 🙂
lol
Is it just me, or is there too much whining in this victory/stump/whatever-this-is speech?
He always whines. It’s very unbecoming to me.
I didn’t listen to him. I’ve heard his stump speech too many times.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/mar/01/super-tuesday-live-trump-clinton-cruz-rubio-sanders-2016-presidential-election
and Democrats Abroad with 19… definitely bottom of the heap
From exit polls, looks like Hillary won both black and white men and women in VA. Every demographic under 30.
😀
Wapo projects the win for Clinton at 70% with 5% reporting.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/01/bernie-sanders-campaign-super-tuesday-11-states-voters
Husband said last time he heard a speech like that was from his HS football coach, and they went on to loose 46-0………said he’ll never forget.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!
Funny.
Too early to call……come on Mass. Come on Oklahoma
CNN says exit polls show Sanders ahead in MA and OK.
Hillary already projected to win AL and TN.
MA and OK are close. If Bernie wins, Hillary will still take about half the delegates.
Watching CNN here too!
I couldn’t take Brian Williams.
I couldn’t take Rachel Maddow, but I do enjoy watching her blink back tears.
I’m a bad person.
Well at least Mass and Oklahoma aren’t called yet … But whoa Trump is running the table!
Wapo is projecting a win for Trump in Al, GA, MA, and TN. It’s got to be exit polls; only Ga has any reporting
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Bernie must be tired. Many hundreds of delegates??
He also said “this campaign is not about electing a president”. So what are we doing here? Maybe someone should tell him.
It’s about the revolution, MABlue. Bernie’s been fighting it for 30 years and it could take 30 more!
At least, especially at the rate he’s going.
Not for him, not anymore. 🙂
GA for Clinton
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Wapo has got her there at 76%.
Hah!
They just put OK ahead for Sanders 57% to 33% at 1% reporting and MA Sanders 67% Clinton 33% at 1% reporting.
What are you watching? CNN has MA with Hillary ahead with 1% counted.
VA, VT, and OK are leaning Trump.
Something I never heard discussed was the Native American vote. However, folks I’ve talked to seem to lean Sanders or Trump. OK has a large indigenous population. Think that’s why Sanders went there last week?
I haven’t heard Bernie did too well with the American Indians from the report I saw. (see if I can find it again…)
Yeah, there was that one thing about the 3 states and VT shipping radioactive waste across state lines.
MA and OK are going to be tight, Clinton just got them at 50% and 51%
Clinton has a small lead in Ok and Ma….
I don’t know why they aren’t calling Trump in VA..he has 37% over Rubio’s 30% with 63% reporting.
CNN has called VA for Trump long ago. What are you watching?
I was really hoping that Hillary could win MA. I just don’t want Sanders and his media supporters to be able to spin posiively out of this night’s results.
BB, can you extrapolate anything from the demographics so far there?
I don’t know which areas have been counted. Hillary is ahead by several points right now. She was leading by 7 and 11 in the last two polls.
Hillary will get plenty of delegates out of MA regardless of the final result.
She’s ahead now!
BB, https://www.washingtonpost.com/2016-election-results/super-tuesday/
Thank you. I was concerned about the CNN exit poll which had Sanders winning by five points or so, but those exit poll are not that reliable, as we know.
TX just called in with Cruz at 38% and 1% reporting.
I can’t take the suspense!
TX has Clinton @ 70% and less than 1% reporting.
Yeah, Hillary has big lead in Texas: 2/1
Hills gets Arkansas.
Yes, exit polls I guess, no reporting yet.
Hillary has won 5 states, Bernie 1 so far.
Yup
Put up pix from our watch party!
She’s leading in all states but Vermont.
It’s def. possible Hillary could carry Ark. in the general says CNN analyst.
Gore would have probably won it in 2000 had he let Bill campaign there. So it is certainly possible, even if the South has become more conservative.
He definitely would have won Tenn. if Bill had been allowed to campaign.
I so agree.
AK, Clinton 83% @ <1%
OK has got something 6.7% the “Other”, so it’s Clinton 48.3% to 45% Sanders
MA is back to Sanders 50%
They are running neck to neck in MA. Although she slightly ahead.
Trump wins VA.
I can’t believe Mass is a nail biter! Thank goodness she’s crushing it everywhere else.
OK is back to Sanders @ 47%, and MA just went Clinton @ 50%
MA back to Sanders @50%.
It looks like the reason Wapo isn’t calling VA is because there are several precincts that could go Rubio or Kasich. If they go Rubio it would be a tighter race.
AR is going Rubio @ 35%. with 0% reporting
Clinton is waiting on Worcester, Boston, and Spfld returns. He has a lead in the bordering towns in the north.
That should mean Clinton will win, don’t you think? Bernie will get Cambridge….
Should mean she wins with most ot Boston still out.
MA is back to Clinton @51%.
Wolf Blitzer just said “Hillary Clinton, ya gotta give her credit, she’s got 5 states.”
WTF did he expect?? He thought Bernie would beat her?
BB, I wonder what he’ll say when she’s elected President?
His head will explode.
It’s taking a while but maybe the proverbial “ship of doom” will turn.
OK Cruz @ 32% and 19% reporting.
Election is in the bag now, Hullary won American Samoa. Ironically, it’ll cancel out her NH loss.
Yey, She will get Guam DC, and PR too, I bet.
Hillary won American Samoa.
Hillary about to speak.
AR has turned to Trump @31%
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Duh!
Wonderful!! love&kindness!
Yes!
Yessss!
Lol, nothing against the other states, but I just want cnn to show MA and OK right now.
Me too.
Wapo had VA in the win for Trump, but now VA and VT are back in the maybe column.
Now VA is back in the win @36% for Trump.
That guy right behind Hillary has a beautiful smile.
Boston Boomer and I will be very disappointed if she loses MA.
I still think she will win.
Oh, I am saying the same thing BB. But I’m afraid to look.
I am thrilled with my girl tonight!!!!!
I want her to win MA as well. MA deserves to be on the right side of DESTINY!!!!
Wapo is showing TX as a win for Clinton with 66% @ 1% reporting.
Wapo shows Cruz with the TX win @ 39% and 2% reporting.
Hillary wins Texas. Ted Cruz also.
OK has gone to Cruz @34% and 40% reporting.
Yay Hillary………Blue Bonnet special.
She is pulling ahead of Sanders since the big city votes are in.
I’m hoping for Mass………… Oklahoma doesn’t have much in the way of delegates.
Exactly.
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My Heroes: Buffy Summers (The Slayer),Lizbeth Salander (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo),
Arya Stark (The Night Wolf), Mindy MacCready (Hit Girl)…and the most Bad Ass of all , Hillary Rodham Clinton!!!! Hills is almost a super hero and she is real!!!
Ok, ok, I am dialing it back.
No problem, Ron, dial it UP!
A.P. is calling Oklahoma for Sanders. CNN, not yet.
Wapo has the win in OK for Sanders @ 52% to Clinton 41% with 51% reporting. There are no other Demo candidates there. I don’t know why there was such a large number voting “other”.
There were 7 or 8 candidates on the TX Democratic primary ballot. Lots of places to throw a vote away.
There were 7 demos on the Ok ballot if I remember right.Hillary, Bernie, O Malley and Webb with a couple of perennial nuts running.
She seems to have found a nice general election message and contrast, pro-love vs anti-love. I think we can win that one!
Yes, I love it!
Yay, love always win.
Love over gold!
From what CNN is saying, I think Hillary is going to win MA. She is ahead in Boston and other urban areas. It’s obviously still close, but she is still leading.
OK just called for Bernie.
Oklahoma must be is firewall
lol
crap.
That still leaves the MN and CO caucuses as the only uncalled states, right?
No. You forgot Massachusetts!
Oops!
Bernie should look at the numbers and get out now. Staying too long at the fair won’t help her or him.
They keep giving Sanders credit for moving Hillary to the left, but I think she was always liberal. They just need to come up with some kind of narrative. I thought that Hillary was saying much the same things in her last campaign.
She was. The media sucks.
CO is in with Clinton @ 50% and <1% reporting.
You said it, BB! Not unlike back in ’08, when we kept trying to get people to look at the record and how Hillary was more liberal than Obama. And now? She’s liberal, and she gets stuff done.
Oklahoma has 1 delegate, Vermont 3…………..Congrats Bernie Sanders.
Heheheheh!
LOL!!!! LMAO!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/01/on_fox_news_karl_rove_says_virginia_race_is_tightening_gets_proved_wrong.html
Marco Rubio is done.
Good, because a Rubio/Haley ticket made me a wee bit nervous.
Now that’s a horrible thought!
Interesting.
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I thought I just saw someone say she won Springfiled too, but now I can’t find who. Now it is jst Trump bloviating all over the channels.
Wow, that says something about Bernie.
Lots of Jewish voters are pragmatists. 🙂
I cannot stand Van Jones.
I agree. He was pissing me off so much when he was saying Hillary copied Bernie’s speech. Bullshit.
I know, I can’t either Pat. He said he couldn’t tell the difference between Hillary’s speech and Bernie’s………………guess he was taking a piss when she talked about kindness and love, and civil rights, and women’s rights, and LGBT rights, and on and on.
However, I loathe Chris Christie.
Clinton won in Austin, TX!!
Yeah, Bernie’s big rally here got about 6500 people out of a population of over 60,000 college students. And it was on a bright sunny 73 degree day. He was gonna be toast.
That is so cool.
Great, the students went for Hillary.
Wait — I thought Hillary couldn’t inspire young people?
I lurve seeing the pundits proved wrong.
Wasn’t it lovely to see what Mario Coumo might characterize as “a gorgeous mosaic” of people (all of them young!) behind the next President of the United States in Florida?
Apparently, no one is excited about Hillary’s candidacy except the voters.
Well said, Sue. I was thinking much the same. David Axelrod just finishes telling everyone that Hillary is very unpopular, and there are all those cheering people. She has a lot of enthusiastic supporters. And she will gain in momentum as this progresses, assuming Sanders stops short of a convention fight.
Axlerod figures what he said in 2008 is just as good now, He’s done.
I can’t believe no advisor has told Trump to read prepared remarks for once.
It’s always this rambling stream of consciousness.
It’s all b u l l s h I t!
He lost me in a warehouse, and we are, going to have millions, and millions, and millions, and millions, and millions of jobs.
All minimum wage, none living wage, and no benefits ’cause we’re going to undo Obamacare, and BTW repeal the overtime laws, and…..
I want Trump condemned to do double shifts forever as a housekeeper in a Florida motel. With the A/C broken.
How can you stand to listen to him? I just can’t.
I can’t, I over talk his every word, and my husband wants me to leave the room, so he can hear the man.
Or maybe the advisor actually read Trump’s prepared remarks… 🙂
LOL — You’re probably right!
Trump – repeating himself over and over and over again. Barf.
Hillary is still ahead by 4 pts in MA with 45% of the votes counted. They are still waiting for the Boston suburbs (like mine) where Hillary should do well.
Thank God!
Fingers crossed!
Com’ on Hillary, com’ on round that bend.
Look at Crispy Creme standing there. Seven newspapers in ‘M have urged him to resign.
I think Clinton might be pulling away in MA
The suburbs aren’t counted yet. Cambridge will help Bernie, but Hillary will do well out where I live. She is going to win.
Where in the hell is Trump’s pointed hat? Whut, he’s defending planned parenthood, did you see those knives being thrown by Christie, hell he has veto’s everything about Planned Parenthood.
Mercy.
The networks should cut away from this utterly self serving Trump press conference.
Ooo, MN just starting to come in. Clinton ahead with less than 1 percent of vote.
Co went from Clinton to Sanders @52% with 1% reporting
MN in with 33% Rubio and 5% reporting
I put up a fresh thread. This one is way too long. Come on up!
Rubio is holding the lead in MN @ 37% to Cruz 27% and 10% reporting.
Sanders is holding the lead in CO with 52% to Clinton 46% @ 3% reporting.
It’s getting closer in MA–Hillary by 3 pts with 68 percent reporting.
Hillary won Lexington by a huge amount. I think that could be a good sign. Middle- to upper-middle-class suburb. There are quite a few of those towns out this way.
Hillary is winning Boston by nearly 17 points. That should help offset Camb. and Somerville. Those are student areas. She seems to be winning the wealthier suburbs.
Who does Drumpf think he’s fooling with that stupid faux presidential press conference?
You can’t hypnotize us with your phony optics, Drumpf!